Danièle Thompson

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Thompson in 2014.

Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942 in Monaco) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.

She has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films including Cousin, cousine, La Boum, Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre, La Reine Margot and Jet Lag, which she also directed. She was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Cousin, cousine. Her 2006 film, Fauteuils d'orchestre was France's entrant for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. She is half Jewish from her father,^[1] and was on the 1986 Cannes Film Festival jury.^[2]

In 2010, she was with Isabelle Adjani, Paul Auster, Isabelle Huppert, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Pierre Thiollet and Henri Tisot among the petition's signatures for Roman Polanski when the film director was temporarily arrested by Swiss police at the request of U.S authorities.

Thompson's son is the actor Christopher Thompson. They have written screenplays together, most notably those of Jet Lag and Season's Beatings.

Partial filmography

• Des Gens Qui s'Embrassent (2013) written, directed
• Le Code a Changé (2009) written, directed
• Fauteuils d'orchestre (2006) written, directed
• Jet Lag (2002) written, directed
• Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre written
• Season's Beatings (1999) written, directed
• La Reine Margot (1994) written
• Une famille formidable (1992-2011) written
• Maladie d'amour (1987) written
• Le Tiroir secret (1986) TV, written
• La vengeance du serpent à plumes (1984) written
• La Boum 2 (1982) written
• L'as des as (1980) written
• La Boum (1980) written
• Cousin, cousine (1975) written

Screenplay

• Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973) (screenplay)
• La Grande Vadrouille (1966) (adaptation)

External links

• Danièle Thompson at the Internet Movie Database